| # | Name | Comments |
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| 101 | Anonymous | Library should be exempt as it serves a greater number of the population, especially kids. |
| 102 | sheila Pepper | pls. don't close the suburban/ rural libraries! |
| 103 | Caterina | Cuts to Blackburn hamlet library services will have serious negative repercussions for our kids. The library offer great support for my family as we are newcomers to Canada and need some additional information on regular basis about local living. We choosed the area for our new home and we counted on walking distance from our home to the library. Please find another way to safe budget, give libraries chance to earn money.. Cutting is easiest way, but there are more others |
| 104 | Susan Hurtubise | As a teacher, I have used the books in the Public library many times as a resource for my classroom. Cuts to library services are not good for the community. |
| 105 | Fadumo Y | |
| 106 | Louise | |
| 107 | Diane Emmerson | Please do not close our library at Elmvale . We Need our library and use it regularily. |
| 108 | Erin Roberts | |
| 109 | oriana trombetti | |
| 110 | Greg Reilly | |
| 111 | Gwen Gall | |
| 112 | Chris Babiarz | Larry O'Brien is a far-right Tory spin doctor that is against the views and desires of the majority of Ottawa's residents. His attempts at service cuts will fail. |
| 113 | Anonymous | |
| 114 | Jeanne Chagnon | |
| 115 | Mrs. L. Gillis | If zero means cuts, then it is not zero. |
| 116 | Aubrey Goldstein | Cutting library services is a short sighted solution to the city's financial issues. Just don't do it! |
| 117 | Anonymous | I have used the Centennial Branch Library for the past 18 years. The branch on Rosemount lis where I discovered the joy of reading when I was 10 - I am now 53. The community branch is the last place where anyone can get borrow books, use the internet, etc. Its a gathering place and the heart of the community. Leave our library branches alone!!! |
| 118 | Anonymous | |
| 119 | Carol Day | The library has been an important part of my life for the past 50 years. It is your job to ensure that it is there for this generation and the children to come. |
| 120 | Ruby sarvaria | |
| 121 | Mary E. Hoffmann | |
| 122 | Heather Foster | |
| 123 | Tara Seibert | I am a graduate student and cannot afford to purchase every book I would like to read at bookstores such as Chapters. I use the library frequently and it is a very valued service to me. To cut library funding is to tell you society that education is not a priority and that reading is for the rich. |
| 124 | Josh Raizman | Save our libraries....educate our children and citizens. |
| 125 | Anonymous | Save our libraries....educate our children and citizens. |
| 126 | elena nicolinco | |
| 127 | Debby Orr | |
| 128 | Victoria Schwaner | |
| 129 | Matthew Lacroix | |
| 130 | Shane Zurbrigg | |
| 131 | Rebecca Barrett | |
| 132 | Anonymous | |
| 133 | Julie Beaulac | |
| 134 | Gregory Hill | |
| 135 | Dale Radoja | With increasing cuts to education funding, there are few places for students to turn for resources. Language proficiency is directly tied to reading and the literacy test in grade 9 has clearly demonstrated a need for improvement. We need to allow those who so desire to fill the gaps in our education system with good books. For those of us who cannot buy every book that we want to read (who has the money or the space?), the public library has been a Godsend. |
| 136 | Karen Wallace-Graner | I do not support my local Osgoode Library closure as a way to save money and gain efficiencies for the city. |
| 137 | Kris | As most people acknowledge, library access is important for everyone.
It is also crucial that new immigrants are able to use services (such as those provided by 'Reference Librarians' and Childrens' Librarian). New immigrants (and the disadvantaged in this society) can thus be able to improve their lives and appreciate this excellent country. |
| 138 | Heather Bruce | Please find another area in which to cut funding. Literacy and community are in danger of being eradicated as it is. Do not help this trend along by closing smaller libraries. |
| 139 | David Fowler | |
| 140 | Robert Carscadde | I strongly support the Ottawa Public Library in it's NO CUTS campaign. |
| 141 | Arthur Zastepa | |
| 142 | Anonymous | |
| 143 | Nathalie Rainville | Libraries are vital resources that enable the public to gain access to vital information and books that would otherwise not be available to most. They are also a landmark for community life. Please do not cut funding to this valuable resource. |
| 144 | Danny Wall | |
| 145 | Denise Deby | |
| 146 | Nora Large | Libraries need to be in neighbourhoods and not centralized. Please keep the libraries open, well funded and well staffed. Thank-you. |
| 147 | Lauren Sculthorpe | The public library is an essential service for individuals of lower socioeconomic means. To cut this service means to cut an essential link to knowledge and information which has for years bridged the intellectual gap across economic divides. To my mind, this is yet another action by our Regional Government that puts the needs of the wealthy above the needs of the poor.
Less money should go into aiding developers building expensive housing projects to the city's west and south, and more should go into essential social services like the Public Library. Less money should go into worthless initiatives like building a new Conference Center, and more should remain in such vital public services as the Library.
By aiding the Public Library to remain open and deliver its essential services to the public, the current government of Ottawa can demonstrate to the people that it at least has some of its priorities straight. Insofar, its priorities have been questionable at best. |
| 148 | Lori Ann Nash | The Ottawa Public Library Budget was presented to city council on December 10, 2007 and was accepted by council with.....no closures of library branches, no reduction of library hours, no reduction in materials or book budgets and no staff cuts,.,....however ther was a deferral of the building of the new West District Library until 2011 in order to save $1.3 Million in operational costs and a reduction in effeciencey costs over the next 3 years of $860,000. ......In view of the alternatives this is a terrific outcome. Thanks to all the Friends and our supporters at city hall. |
| 149 | Katrin Gracie | |
| 150 | Katrin Gracie | |